Tuberose Essential Oil properties
Tuberose oil has a slightly spicy, heavy, sweet fragrance.
Tuberose Essential Oil Origin
Tuberose is a tender, tall, slim perennial with long slender leaves, a tuberous root and large, very fragrant, white lily-like flowers and grows Conventional Harvest in south india
It is cultivated all over the world for the cut flower trade, but specially in Egypt, China, France and Morocco for its oil.
Tuberose Essential Oil Extraction
A concrete and absolute is extracted by solvent extraction from the fresh flowers, picked before the petals open.
Tuberose Essential Oil Chemical composition
The main chemical components are menthyl benzoate, menthyl anthranilate, benzyl alcohol, butyric acid, eugenol, nerol, farnesol and geraniol.
Tuberose Essential Oil Precautions
Tuberose oil is not normally used in aromatherapy but in the perfume industry as a component of good quality perfumes and is said to have narcotic properties, although proper safety data is not available.
Tuberose oil is extracted from Polianthes tuberosa of the Agavaceae family and is also known as tuberosa and tubereuse
